Determination Quotes

"Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe."
Gail Devers

"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination."
Norman Vincent Peale

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."
Determination Saying

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Where there’s a will there’s a way.”
English Proverb

"Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you."
Denis Waitley

"The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed."
Richard B. Sheridan

"If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen."
Cher

"A determined person will do more with a pen and paper, than a lazy person will accomplish with a personal computer."
Catherine Pulsifer

"We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history."
Sonia Johnson

"The determination to win is the better part of winning."
Daisaku Ikeda

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to."
George Allen

"I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened."
Wilma Rudolph

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
Henry Ford

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."
Tommy Lasorda

"If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."
Rosalyn Carter

"This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!"
Mariah Carey

"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it."
Alexander Graham Bell

"Where there's a will there's a way."
Proverb

"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Don't let go of your dreams. If you have determination and belief in your dreams, you will succeed in spite of your desire to let go."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Don't Let Go Of Your Dreams...

"Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt

"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done."
Vince Lombardi

"It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge."
John J. Watson

"So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win."
Og Mandino

"How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser."
Lou Holtz

"I was determined I would succeed, and this was only a temporary detour. I needed my job and didn't have the money to obtain a university degree, but I had determination and optimism."
Catherine Pulsifer, from A Negative Experience an Opportunity?

"I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do."
Chris Evert Lloyd

"Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost."
Roger Dawson

"Determination burns within each one of us. Whether or not it will heat the room or the whole house depends on how much time we spend feeding the fire."
Michelle C. Ustaszeski

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
Albert Einstein

"Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so."
Charles De Gaulle

"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there."
Bo Jackson

"Courage is the foundation of determination. Determination and courage are the cornerstones of success."
M. K. Soni

"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop."
Robert Hughes

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."
Mario Andretti

"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men."
Dr. Thomas Fuller

"Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power."
Charles Simmons

"Those who don't understand determination call determination stubbornness or too driven. To be determined is to see it through!"
Catherine Pulsifer

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."
Og Mandino

"Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances."
J. Donald Wlters

"The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do."
Denis Waitley

"Nothing is the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
Genius will not;
Education will not;
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
Calvin Coolidge

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."
Vince Lombardi

"I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win."
Arnold Palmer

"We will either find a way, or make one!"
Hannibal

"It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions."
Charles F. Kettering

Failure

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
William Blake

With determination and belief, you will be surprised at what you accomplish.
Byron Pulsifer

May you have....Enough determination to make each day better than yesterday.
Author Unknown, from the poem May You Have

It is the size of one's will which determines success.
Author Unknown